How can we look at a female and say she/her/hers or a male and say he/his/him without consciously thinking, "ok this is a female" or "ok this is a male"?
2006-12-03 13:20:57 · 5 answers · asked by Natalie s 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
even if you don't feel it, your brain thinks before saying she/her/hers or he/his/him.
2006-12-03 13:29:19 · answer #1 · answered by kl55000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's simply ingrained by continually using that information. As children we had to be corrected. After a while it simply isn't required anymore since we have now been conditioned by repetition. It's just like driving a car; after a while we only need to think about the unusual situations, not the standard 'going on down the road' situations.
2006-12-03 21:33:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jagg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only male and female, but everything. We don't think to ourselves, " This is a dog and that's a house ". It registers instantly in our brain.
The brain is miles ahead of our thinking. We take in whole scenes that register in our brain without our thinking of any single part of the scene.
2006-12-03 21:35:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what are u talking about? Are u asking this b/c u are discovering another language and are like Woah... Y don't i have to think all this when i speak my language? B/c i do that 2
2006-12-03 21:32:51 · answer #4 · answered by e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah but sometimes were wrong.
2006-12-03 21:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋